About 60 to 70 members of the pool—with assistance from
other residents of the Lincolnia Park-Heywood Glen neighborhood and students
from Holmes Middle School—spent two weekends digging a huge bed and planting
shrubs along an entire block along Montrose Street on land owned by LPRC.

But it was the donations from local businesses that made the
project feasible, says Anne Wuhrur, a member
of the LPRC board.. Page Chevrolet, the car dealership going up on Little River
Turnpike, contributed $900 worth of fencing, and Campbell and Ferrara provided
augers, six workers, and discounts on plants, Wuhrer says.

A neighbor, Jeff Strite, who owns Core Outdoor Living,
contributed a work crew, as well as a Bobca,t which made it so much easier to
dig the planting bed, which Wuhrer estimates is about 500 feet long and 15 feet
wide.

“Now we just have to make sure we water it and keep it
alive,” she says.

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